| _ Indoor 1966/Men 1500m Dortmund | John Whetton |  Great Britain | ---- | Oleg Rayko |  Soviet Union | ---- | Ulf Högberg |  Sweden | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1967/Men 1500m Prague | John Whetton | Great Britain | ---- | Josef Odložil |  Czechoslovakia | ---- | Stanislav Hoffman | Czechoslovakia | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1968/Men 1500m Madrid | John Whetton | Great Britain | ---- | José María Morera |  Spain | ---- | Igor Potapchenko | Soviet Union | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1969/Men 1500m Belgrade | Edgard Salvé |  Belgium | ---- | Knut Brustad |  Norway | ---- | Walter Wilkinson | Great Britain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1970/Men 1500m Vienna | Henryk Szordykowski |  Poland | ---- | Frank Murphy |  Ireland | ---- | Volodymyr Panteley | Soviet Union | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1971/Men 1500m Sofia | Henryk Szordykowski | Poland | ---- | Volodymyr Panteley | Soviet Union | ---- | Gianni Del Buono |  Italy | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1972/Men 1500m Grenoble | Jacky Boxberger |  France | ---- | Spylios Zacharopoulos |  Greece | ---- | Jürgen May |  West Germany | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1973/Men 1500m Rotterdam | Henryk Szordykowski | Poland | ---- | Herman Mignon | Belgium | ---- | Klaus-Peter Justus |  East Germany | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1974/Men 1500m Gothenburg | Henryk Szordykowski | Poland | ---- | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | Włodzimierz Staszak | Poland | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1975/Men 1500m Katowice | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | Pyotr Anisim | Soviet Union | ---- | Gheorghe Ghipu |  Romania | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1976/Men 1500m Munich | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | West Germany | ---- | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | Gheorghe Ghipu | Romania | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1977/Men 1500m San Sebastián | Jürgen Straub | East Germany | ---- | Paul-Heinz Wellmann | West Germany | ---- | János Zemen |  Hungary | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1978/Men 1500m Milan | Antti Loikkanen |  Finland | ---- | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | Jürgen Straub | East Germany | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1979/Men 1500m Vienna | Eamonn Coghlan | Ireland | ---- | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | John Robson | Great Britain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1980/Men 1500m Sindelfingen | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | Ray Flynn | Ireland | ---- | Pierre Délèze |  Switzerland | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1981/Men 1500m Grenoble | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | Uwe Becker | West Germany | ---- | Mirosław Żerkowski | Poland | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1982/Men 1500m Milan | José Luis González | Spain | ---- | José Manuel Abascal | Spain | ---- | Antti Loikkanen | Finland | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1983/Men 1500m Budapest | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- | José Manuel Abascal | Spain | ---- | Antti Loikkanen | Finland | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1984/Men 1500m Gothenburg | Peter Wirz | Switzerland | ---- | Riccardo Materazzi | Italy | ---- | Thomas Wessinghage | West Germany | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1985/Men 1500m Piraeus | José Luis González | Spain | ---- | Marcus O'Sullivan | Ireland | ---- | José Luis Carreira | Spain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1986/Men 1500m Madrid | José Luis González | Spain | ---- | José Luis Carreira | Spain | ---- | Han Kulker |  Netherlands | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1987/Men 1500m Liévin | Han Kulker | Netherlands | ---- | Jens-Peter Herold | East Germany | ---- | Klaus-Peter Nabein | West Germany | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1988/Men 1500m Budapest | Ari Suhonen | Finland | ---- | Ronny Olsson | Sweden | ---- | Rüdiger Horn | East Germany | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1989/Men 1500m The Hague | Hervé Phélippeau | France | ---- | Han Kulker | Netherlands | ---- | Sergey Afanasyev | Soviet Union | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1990/Men 1500m Glasgow | Jens-Peter Herold | East Germany | ---- | Fermín Cacho | Spain | ---- | Tony Morrell | Great Britain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1992/Men 1500m Genoa | Matthew Yates | Great Britain | ---- | Sergey Melnikov |  EUN | ---- | Branko Zorko |  CRO Croatia | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1994/Men 1500m Paris | David Strang | Great Britain | ---- | Branko Zorko | Croatia | ---- | Kader Chékhémani | France | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1996/Men 1500m Stockholm | Mateo Cañellas | Spain | ---- | Anthony Whiteman | Great Britain | ---- | Kader Chékhémani | France | ---- |
| _ Indoor 1998/Men 1500m Valencia | Rui Silva |  Portugal | ---- | Kader Chékhémani | France | ---- | Andrey Zadorozhniy |  Russia | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2000/Men 1500m Ghent | José Antonio Redolat | Spain | ---- | James Nolan | Ireland | ---- | Mehdi Baala | France | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2002/Men 1500m Vienna | Rui Silva | Portugal | ---- | Juan Carlos Higuero | Spain | ---- | Michael East | Great Britain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2005/Men 1500m Belgrade | Ivan Heshko |  Ukraine | ---- | Juan Carlos Higuero | Spain | ---- | Reyes Estévez | Spain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2007/Men 1500m Madrid | Juan Carlos Higuero | Spain | ---- | Sergio Gallardo | Spain | ---- | Arturo Casado | Spain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2009/Men 1500m Birmingham | Rui Silva | Portugal | ---- | Diego Ruíz | Spain | ---- | Yoann Kowal | France | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2011/Men 1500m Turin | Manuel Olmedo | Spain | ---- | Kemal Koyuncu |  Turkey | ---- | Bartosz Nowicki | Poland | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2013/Men 1500m Paris | Mahiedine Mekhissi-Benabbad | France | ---- | İlham Tanui Ŷ"zbilen | Turkey | ---- | Simon Denissel | France | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2015/Men 1500m Prague | Jakub Holuša |  Czechia | ---- | İlham Tanui Ŷ"zbilen | Turkey | ---- | Chris O'Hare | Great Britain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2017/Men 1500m Belgrade | Marcin Lewandowski | Poland | ---- | Kalle Berglund | Sweden | ---- | Filip Sasinek | Czechia | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2019/Men 1500m Glasgow | Marcin Lewandowski | Poland | ---- | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | ---- | Jesús Gómez | Spain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2021/Men 1500m Toruń | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | ---- | Marcin Lewandowski | Poland | ---- | Jesús Gómez | Spain | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2023/Men 1500m Istanbul | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | ---- | Neil Gourley | Great Britain | ---- | Azeddine Habz | France | ---- |
| _ Indoor 2025/Men 1500m Apeldoorn | Jakob Ingebrigtsen | Norway | ---- | Azeddine Habz | France | ---- | Isaac Nader | Portugal | ---- |
